The Bush Administration continued to temporize — in Bali, the American team managed to gum up negotiations on a treaty to succeed Kyoto, parts of which lapse in 2012 — but it seems increasingly isolated, even within the borders of its own country.
If regression to the mean was operating, a large functional change at one visit would be mitigated by a small change at a succeeding visit, all of which would have been included in our analysis.
Transit fees are real money, and who gets that real money will go a long way toward determining which of these countries succeed and which don't".
"We think there are good grounds on which the appeal should succeed, which include the failure of the tribunal to consider any material [on] rational suicide".
If you order carefully, those feelings will survive the appetizers, only a few of which succeed.
The foundation says the project would cost no more than setting up a museum, an opera theatre, or academic building - all of which succeed in attracting the support of private benefactors.
While this trait arguably encourages enterprises, some of which succeed, it may also, on occasion, blind us to the possibility of avoidable loss, even terminal loss.
Instead of desiring that some project of mine succeed, which is a desire that might be thwarted by my death, I might instead adopt a conditionalized version of this desire, namely: should I live on, let my project succeed.
Ryan Lizza's analysis in the New Republic is a good example of the first approach: "Feingold cares about making a political point with a measure that has no chance of succeeding and which, even if it did, would have no actual consequences.
This voyage sets the scene for the tales of the succeeding generations, which encompass a broad sweep of characters and events: a young boy glimpses his father's dream of a new life; a baby is lost and found; first love blossoms under an apple tree.Mesmerising and cleverly interlinked, these stories are well balanced neither overly inventive nor stolidly factual.
